The video of my dojocon presentation. The microphone was off for the first couple of minutes but I look pretty animated. And then the compliance panel that I tried not to dominate: And finally, my slides are up on slideshare: Dojo Con 09 View more presentations from Michael Smith. Bookmark to: Hide ...
Mature industries like banking, pharmaceuticals and insurance have been outsourcing for decades – even before the term became popular. These verticals have standardized processes in their industries which enable them to easily scale – based on the economy and market conditions. Because outsourcing h ...
This evening I imported my 50,000th picture to my Lightroom 2 Catalog (database). That’s a year’s photography. Lightroom 50,000 Photos Much to my surprise Lightroom didn’t burst into flames or otherwise have a meltdown. There’s an old joke about an undocumented IBM S/360 opcode: HCF – halt and catch ...
So close to #42! StupidFilter, comment filtering, not for spam but for stupidity. Obviously I don’t need it on this blog Stella, “Blame Stella for breaking your web applications” Bluepill: a new process monitoring tool no-www Rack Middleware Scaling Rails – On The Edge – Part 1, I want to have time ...
Cloud computing is an evolutionary approach to delivery of software as a service, accessed and hosted through the internet. The software, or application, is owned and maintained by someone else, you do not own it. You pay a fixed subscription fee, in general meaning you pay monthly, to access someth ...
Way back in 2002 Yahoo acquired Inktomi who was largely know for their search products. Their software powered some early search engines like HotBot in the pre-Google days. One of their lesser known products was something called Traffic Server. Even if it was lesser known it was still used by ISP’s ...
Cloud Computing and E-Commerce Cloud computing is an internet based use of computing technology. It is seen as a paradigm shift in that details are hidden away from users who do not have knowledge or control over the infrastructure that supports them. It typically involves the use of dynamically sca ...
UK Scale Camp. We’re hosting a one day web performance and scalability unconference at the Guardian on the 4th of December. If you’re involved in running a high-scale website in the UK (or abroad) we’d love you to come along. Spaces are going fast.
For the craftier entrepreneurs out there, there are a variety of different money making opportunities available. Anyone who has ever heard the old expression about figuring out how to make money doing the things you love will be happy to know that it really is possible. For people who do crafts, hob ...
What are IT buyers’ priorities when investing in Cloud technologies vs on premise? And what are these buyers getting out of those investments? What customer service and support organizations can Cloud computing solutions benefit the most, and when is a premise based solution more likely? To find out ...
